Carbon Accounting

Introduction

Carbon accountants are essential players in the carbon markets. Businesses that aim to reduce their carbon footprint and meet set sustainability goals rely on accurately estimated measurements and reports provided by carbon accounting firms.

Carbonlink's API provides these accountants access to a liquid and high-quality supply of carbon credits to dis-intermediate accountants’ reliance on brokerage firms and automate menial tasks, such as credit aggregation, data collection, and retirement. This enables carbon accountants to focus on more strategic work, such as calculating scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and customizing corporate GHG reduction strategies.

In Application: Carbon accountants utilize the Carbonlink API to automate high-quality and diverse carbon offsetting solutions in tandem with the provided emission reduction reports.

Example: Carbon Neutral Accounting is a firm that establishes carbon reports & disclosures, sustainability targets, and emission reduction plans.

Solution: Carbon Neutral Accounting interacts with the Carbonlink API to augment its overall core service. It can now search for projects to include in a recommendation, aggregate credit data, and automatically purchase/retire on behalf of clients.

How it works: An accountant performs an emission analysis/estimation of a company. When completed, this person navigates to Carbonlink to search for environmental assets and the accompanying underlying metadata/origination documents in Carbonlink’s easy-to-use project modules. Then, they curate a project portfolio recommendation and seamlessly offset and retire credits.

Value Proposition

• Save time and money by automating many of the tasks involved in carbon accounting, such as data collection and reporting which enables carbon accountants to focus on more strategic work.

• Increase transparency by using the Carbonlink API’s provided information/data about all of the carbon projects it offers. This empowers informed and data-driven decisions about which projects to support and recommend.

• Purchase carbon credits directly from projects, without having to go through a carbon brokerage firm to save money, take control of the offsetting process, and offer clients competitive pricing rates.